What is an Enterprise Service Bus?
An Enterprise Service Bus enables different IT applications to communicate with each other. The term consists of:
- Enterprise: Business
- Service: Service
- Bus: Mechanism for data transmission between system components via a shared transmission path
Why ESB?
Point-to-Point
10 Systems 44 Connections
Exponential growth of connections
ESB Architecture
10 Systems 10 Connections
Linear growth of connections
Key Benefits
Cost Efficiency
Unlike point-to-point integrations, the number of required connections grows linearly instead of exponentially.
Flexibility
ESB enables faster and more cost-effective adjustments when system landscapes change.
Logical Coupling
Different services are efficiently connected without technical incompatibility.